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The Object of My Affection (1998)
22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Style:
sentimental, sweet, touching, cute, light, romantic comedy, humorous, romantic, rom com, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, gay, gay interest, gay man straight woman relationship, pregnancy, gender, gay lead character, glbt, lgbtq, unrequited love, lgbt, women, love triangle, unfulfilled love, thanksgiving, babies and infants, bittersweet, convention, gays and lesbians, wedding, pregnant woman, gay slur, breakup, homosexuality, marijuana ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york state
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and feel good films with plots about couples, love and romance, friendship, life philosophy, love, culture clash and relationships mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Object of My Affection: Friends with Money (2006), Dream for an Insomniac (1996), Long-Term Relationship (2006), Imagine Me & You (2005), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california, new jersey
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco, los angeles, usa, oakland california, toronto ontario canada ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tired of the unsatisfying singles scene, Glenn (Matthew Montgomery) answers a personal ad and meets Adam (Windham Beacham), a handsome Southern man seeking a long-term relationship. The two hit it off immediately, but their initial attraction is ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay interest, gay sex, friendship, homosexual, gay marriage, gay wedding, male pubic hair, lgbt, gender bending, dog ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, erotic, cute ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, love triangle, wedding, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, lgbtq, sapphic, gays and lesbians, love affair ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
london, idaho, europe, tower bridge london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sexy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
wedding, best friend, love story, wedding preparations and rituals, women, unrequited love, love and romance, love triangle, friendship, male female friendship, amor, wedding planning ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york, madagascar, san francisco ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lgbt, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay, introspection, coming of age, teenage life, self discovery, youth, parents and children, friendship, father son relationship ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, entertaining, romantic comedy, anamorphic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns, girl ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, unusual plot structure, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, toddlers, teens, kids ...
Plot:
sex, friendship, happy ending, best friends in love, relationships, love and romance, breast feeding, best friend, love story, relationship problems, pregnancy, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, workplace romance, destiny, happy ending, manipulation, unlikely couple, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, revelation, workplace, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, boston, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
Style:
romantic, light, romantic comedy, witty, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, baseball, baseball player, love story, sarcasm, twists and turns, life philosophy, love triangle, writers, shopping, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sweet, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
mistaken identity, love and romance, pregnancy, enemies to lovers, women, rags to riches, pretend relationship, train crash, forbidden love, society, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, political, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay relationship, gay interest, gay, homosexuality, aids, closeted homosexual, gay slur, road trip, human nature, lgbtq, repressed homosexual, first gay sexual experience ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, california, england
Similarity:
100%
117K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An unmarried 40-year-old woman turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own.
Style:
romantic, rom com, romantic comedy, humorous, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids
Plot:
pregnancy, male female friendship, best friend, best friends in love, couples, love story, destiny, father son relationship, parenthood, single parent, unfulfilled love, childbirth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, michigan, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or success. Or maybe... he's just not that into you.
Style:
romantic, sexy, romantic comedy, funny, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love and romance, women, love affair, looking for love, love story, couple relations, dating, singleness, infidelity, best friends in love, single woman, marriage ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents ...
Style:
emotional, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, wedding, lgbtq, glbt, marriage of convenience, marriage, immigrant, gay couple, love triangle, sexuality, food, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, taiwan, manhattan new york city, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, feel good, romantic, clever, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, love, gay bar, gay friend, gay sex, gay couple, gay best friend, happy ending, friends ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of friends search for fun, love and ultimately themselves in West Hollywood. This movie is an entertaining, and sometimes cynical look into the lives of six gay men trying to come to terms with what being gay and single (or gay and ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, gay slur, gay athlete, lgbt, glbt, group of friends, gay club, dating, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, idaho, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
Style:
romantic, sexy, light, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
singleness, women, breakup, love and romance, couple relations, love story, drinking, single, love, multiple storylines, fall in love, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
812
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Providing the romantic comedy genre with a decidedly queer twist, THE ONE is an effortlessly charming tale which proves that love is never simple! Hunky Daniel couldn’t have it better: great parents, a successful career and his beautiful fiancée ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
first gay sexual experience, gay, gay father, wedding, gay husband, closeted homosexual, gender, wedding ceremony, love triangle, marital problem, friendship between men, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- ...
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, scenic, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
fall in love, road trip, youth, love and romance, couples, enemies to lovers, beautiful scenery, love, love affair, couple relations, love story, writers ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, tuscany, new york, europe, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, male nudity, gay interest, aids, nudity, male pubic hair, gay couple, hiv, glbt, friendship between men, swimming, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new york state, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined ...
Style:
sexy, touching, sweet, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
divorce, black romance, friendship, african american woman, betrayal, black woman, black, female protagonist, adultery, gay husband, love story, infidelity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
Style:
independent film, talky, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay interest, lgbtq, homosexual, drag queen, lgbt, gay, gay bar, gay bashing, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, true love, glbt ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1971, year 1980
Place:
new york, usa, new york state, brooklyn new york city, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little ...
Style:
touching, romantic, light, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, pregnancy, friendship, single father, divorce, aids, stereotypes, best friend, couple relations, breakup, dysfunctional family, lgbt ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, santa monica california, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, rom com, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, destiny, best friends in love, wedding preparations and rituals, love story, love and romance, true love, best friend, friendship, relationships, friends ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, london, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, teen, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, gay teenager, gay relationship, teenager, teenage life, high school, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
britain, europe, england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four Weddings And A Funeral is a British comedy about a British Man named Charles and an American Woman named Carrie who go through numerous weddings before they determine if they are right for one another.
Style:
romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, funeral, friendship, unrequited love, multiple storylines, wedding ceremony, love, love and romance, marriage, love story, hotel, divorce ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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